Rolling Cart Lab

Table of Contents

Additional Worksheets

Physlet Demonstration

"What happens when we use energy?"

Lab

RollingCar12-10.doc

Blank Lab report

"Cart Speed Download" - To download this file you must "control click" on the file and then choose "save link as". Be sure to tell the computer to download to your desktop or note where the file is going. Otherwise you will need to use spotlight to find your file.

CartLabAnswerCheck09.xls

Use this file to check your math.

Additional Worksheets

CartEnFollwup.sp09.doc

- Practice calculating energy and making graphs.

Trebuchet.movnotes.sp09.doc

Movie notes for the Trebuchet video below

PSSA Scenario

Go to http://www.funderstanding.com/k12/coaster/ for practice before doing the scenario

Funderstanding.doc

- Use this worksheet when at the Funderstanding site

Roller Coaster PSSA Senario1.doc

- PSSA scenario with questions

Physlet Demonstration

The applet below helps to show the changes in energy as an object slides down a ramp.

The applet below helps to show the changes in energy as a skateboarder rides up and down hills.

energyconssimulation.jnlp

Videos

Video below shows how kinetic energy gets transferred between objects

This video shows how energy transfer works during the firing of a trebuchet

Web Links

Article on Potential Energy
http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/GBSSCI/PHYS/Class/energy/u5l1b.html

Link to the Franklin Institute webpage about energy types
http://fi.edu/guide/hughes/energytypes10.html

Franklin Institute link about Conservation of Energy
http://fi.edu/guide/hughes/energyconservation.html